What Good Sci-Fi am I missing?
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UPDATED: Wednesday, August 5, 2026 07:08
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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Ep 2 was the weaker, I liked the Art idea it maybe even pays tribute or referenced that other movie Labyrinth the scene with Doors Riddle trying to figure out Bowie Goblin King Maze.
Something about the 3 smoking weed was it or having a drink but then an intense conversation starts 'hypothetical' that stops being intense about another man living a similar but very different life, it was a missed opportunity a joke to throw in, a chance for more anger, something else back and forth maybe humor, a reaction...but there was almost nothing, maybe they were playing sleepy and tired but I think it felt like a wasted scene.
That weed smoking scene was to make a voice over for the trailer, my friend.
Sometime in the future you should get around to watching the trailer for the show. I didn't watch the full thing myself because I didn't want anything spoiled for me, but before I posted about the show here I wanted to see how spoilery the trailer was and it was awful.
What he was saying during that pot smoking scene as a hypothetical is played throughout the trailer, but in a way where it's presented as known fact about what happens to him in the show. I'd like to think that this is now NOT what is actually happening and the whole trailer viewing audience got punked.
I wouldn't watch the trailer yet, because I do believe it will spoil a lot of the show for you if you do, but remember this and go back and watch it after the season wraps up and you'll know that the scene was not wasted.
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Still feel like there is a whole Stolen Identity Face-Off Body Snatcher possession memory transfer mind hijacking into Body Suit Evil Doppelgänger from the Bizarre Mirror Universe...a common plot point Wolverine asks who am I and Identify your real self through Amnesia and missing Memory, forgetting your thoughts and person later proves to be important, the newbie not really new engages in acts that do not make sense...again similar to the other 'Dark Matter' with a space ship who forgot who they were but they twins one good and one evil? they have switched places. 'A Stolen Life' about Twins there was also a Van Damme movie, Double Impact? Sherlock Holmes, CSI, Poirot Murder Mystery maybe Xfiles, Enemy of the State
There it is... Face-Off. If you remember before I said the following...
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SIX: I think you need to get ready to feel that way a lot. My mind has been swimming with the possibility of what is actually going on this whole time too. After 3 episodes, hilariously, part of me is starting to think that everything going on has a much more simple and almost trite/tropish motivation behind them. I don't think it's possible at all that these feelings are right, and I think that I'm being manipulated to feel that way by the story.
I REALLY want to tell you a certain Nicolas Cage movie part of this is really starting to remind me of, but I don't want to spoil anything for you because just mentioning the name of the movie would be a spoiler so I can't. You'll know what I know after you watch 2 more episodes.
The "simple and trite/tropish motivation" was referencing Nicolas Cage's Face-Off. I think we're being lead to believe this on some level, but I expect the real motivations to run a whole lot deeper than this. The stakes just seem way too high for that to be all this is about.
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Sudden jumps between worlds is not as smooth as I thought it could be and adds a little confusion interrupting what could be a more natural flow of scifi drama story, its good they added that stopwatch droplet train car move by sound effect maybe a finger snap sound effect mixed into to that acoustic envelope effect otherwise you are not grounded when maybe unknowingly watching it all move between worlds.
I'm okay with how they did that. I think it keeps the pace up and allows them to transition back and forth quickly without puttin
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ok watched ep 3, it was excellent, lots of new characters introduced if we classify 1-2 as 'The Pilot' takes the show in a new direction.
The female henchman or henchwoman is basically just a monster.
but new concepts and plot elements taking it in another direction and a Female Cop detective shows up trying to sniff things out and had a few twists I did not expect.
Joel Edgerton is a good actor, and very skilled playing as good guy Jason-1 or as narcissism Jason-2 playing a role of an imposter trying to fit into another person's shoes
it hints at the modern world, maybe even kind of a warning about all the stuff you put out there on the Instagrams, Snapchats, Facebooks
poor Ryan can't get a break but he's a lot more financially successful in Earth-1
Without doubt going down that stolen memory stolen identity route.
I thought he should have kicked the Female-Monster in the face, she was trying to put a gun into the room thought he should have kicked her teeth out, maybe the writers film makers wanted to make that scene shocking but I thought it was hilarious she lost her hand, pity she's still alive and I will be forced to watch more of her
didnt expect the ending with a super box tunnel
not sure if I'll watch more but its an entertaining show
Oh, come'on man!
You started the post by saying that Episode three was "excellent", but you don't know if you'll watch more?
Wednesday can't come fast enough for me.
I haven't watched a TV show where I had to wait week to week for a new episode since the last season of LOST. I kind of forgot to remember what it felt like to have something little like this to look forward to in the back of my mind all week while the rest of the world happens.
I really liked Episode 1 and 2, but I didn't post about the show here until after watching Episode 3. That's the episode that really grabbed me. It was excellent, and I can't wait to see what happens next.
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The 'Capgras Syndrome' the Deep Fake or Body Snatcher plot or drug that renders him unconscious for the Quantum Jump Mirror Universe might be an important plot point, Dissociative Body Double paranoia identity...or Psycho thing I kind of hinted it might feel like it could go that way.
There was also maybe a trailer for a Scottish an Irish a Welsh movie? 'Hole in the Ground' imposter I never seen the film but it was maybe no scifi, more super natural horror, maybe an old actor from Braveheart was in it?
I might go back to this show, ep 2 put me off but I thought ep 3 was excellent as I said. If you class ep1-2 as a 'pilot' or join the two as a tele-movie it would lift the second part and make it stronger. I watched the trailer for the series and you're right it really spoils a lot of stuff about to happen and the show has a few twists and turns yet it seems to go in directions I was not expecting.
If there are too many worlds how to track the story, maybe it breaks down to the characters and bad universe, maybe its a corporate conspiracy the Box is an AI Alien thing that feels like Artificial Intelligence, maybe theer is a sub-plot 'Ryan' the biology brains, Leighton Vance with the cash, company and his power through money, and Amanda psychology, maybe its as simple as Jason-1 and J-2 and the original family.
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The 'Capgras Syndrome' the Deep Fake or Body Snatcher plot or drug that renders him unconscious for the Quantum Jump Mirror Universe might be an important plot point, Dissociative Body Double paranoia identity...or Psycho thing I kind of hinted it might feel like it could go that way.
There was also maybe a trailer for a Scottish an Irish a Welsh movie? 'Hole in the Ground' imposter I never seen the film but it was maybe no scifi, more super natural horror, maybe an old actor from Braveheart was in it?
I might go back to this show, ep 2 put me off but I thought ep 3 was excellent as I said. If you class ep1-2 as a 'pilot' or join the two as a tele-movie it would lift the second part and make it stronger. I watched the trailer for the series and you're right it really spoils a lot of stuff about to happen and the show has a few twists and turns yet it seems to go in directions I was not expecting.
Right? I think I hate that trailer as much as I love the show. I'm so glad that I didn't watch it before I decided to just watch the show based off of a friend's recommendation. And from what you're telling me right now, I'm glad I stopped it about 10 or 15 seconds in because I was afraid that it would go on to spoil more than just the first few episodes and it sounds like you've just confirmed that for me.
I was excited about seeing it tonight, but I was helping my buddy move all day long and I'm too beat right now. I could still watch it, but I don't want to ruin that experience while I'm exhausted. That's what YouTube is for.
I'll probably watch it tomorrow and let you know what I think without giving away any spoilers.
I dunno man. Still don't really understand your motivation for not possibly finishing this series. Even back when I was watching TV shows regularly, I know I watched a lot of crap and I'll never get those hours back, but it's been like a desert for so long with new content that I'm not passing up the chance to watch something that I already know is really good first hand.
But maybe that's just me. You seem to like to dip your feet into a lot of pools, but you're really selective about which one you're going to jump in after you felt all the temperatures. I'm a lot less charatible than that these days. Even TV shows that have had separate recommendations from several friends and family members like Reacher really hold no interest for me. I've got to REALLY be feeling something to even spend 1 minute firing up a new thing to watch... Especially something as time consuming as a TV show. But boy, when I get hooked, I get hooked.
The last three I watched were top-tier winners to me. Fallout was simply amazing. If they don't fumble Dark Matter I think that it also will be. I don't know if I mentioned it before, but I watched BEEF before that.
It's an almost exclusively Asian cast in that one, with the lead male being the guy who played Glen on The Walking Dead, and I'm fairly certain the female lead is actually a wokie type, maybe a standup comic that I heard people complaining about 2 years ago perhaps??? If I'm right about that, it didn't bother me none in the show. There was some really good acting and writing in there and she was great. Not even my normal fare, but I really enjoyed it. I managed to keep that one down to one episode every few days until I watched Episode 5. Once I watched Episode 5 I binge watched the other 3 right then and there, something I haven't done once since when I quit drinking.
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Didn't get to episode 4 today either, unfortunately.
I want to be able to give this my undivided attention. Tomorrow should be fine.
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Hey Jaynez... You're going to want to watch Episode 4.
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Liminal Spaces mentioned in this episode. Inside the box has a very Backrooms Found Footage vibe even if they didn't mention them.
Sliders theme in full effect here, although they ultimately have quite a bit more control over where they end up on the other side... those fortunate enough to figure out how, anyway.
The episode made me think about parallel universes and how there's a great chance that many of them already consist of a dead Earth, either from a man made catastrophe or something outside of our control. It made me wonder what percentage of parallel Earths still have human life on it in 2024.
They really leaned heavy into the Face Off theme in this episode, even humanizing Jason-2 quite a bit. I still don't believe fully that a "2nd chance" is what this was all about in the first place, but on the off chance that this is where it's going I'm not as opposed to it as I was before just because of the writing. It still would be a pretty big disappointment to me if that's what this is about though.
I still have no idea where this show is going and I love it.
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I think I might get to the rest of this show soon, casually watch stuff in evening either Nature Documentary or with French, German, Korean or Japanese language.
Other stuff I need to finish or star the tv show Fallout, movie 'Civil War' old shows like Deadwood older tv series Justified/Fargo, Tokyo Vice and scifi 'LoveDeath+Robots'
Before the election of Trump the other 2015 Dark Matter a completely different tv series with the same name went mostly unnoticed
https://www.metacritic.com/game/dark-matter-2015/
'Critic reviews are not available yet'
maybe in another universe this became a successful show?
There are other scifi from South Korea for example but Scifi seems kind of dead with the big Star Treks and Star Wars starting to fall down
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I think I might get to the rest of this show soon, casually watch stuff in evening either Nature Documentary or with French, German, Korean or Japanese language.
Episode 5 is coming out tonight and I'm psyched. I hope Apple doesn't release stuff a day late because of holidays. For sure you should see this one through. I mean... there's always the chance they don't stick the landing, and there's always a chance they leave it on a cliffhanger and cancel the show without ever resolving it, but so far so good.
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Other stuff I need to finish or star the tv show Fallout, movie 'Civil War' old shows like Deadwood older tv series Justified/Fargo, Tokyo Vice and scifi 'LoveDeath+Robots'
Fallout was the best video game adaptation ever made, bar none.
Deadwood was amazing, but they screwed that last season up. They had what should have been the end of the series about an episode or two before the finale and should have ended it there, but then they presented a larger problem which could have lead to an even better season or two in the future but that never happened. It was supposed to be wrapped up in the movie, but then the movie never happened either. Until it did... but by that point everyone who acted in it had aged so much they needed to go a completely different direction with the movie. I never watched the movie because I wanted to rewatch the entire show before I saw it, but after the movie came out I got my old man to watch the show/movie and he said the movie was a satisfying conclusion.
Justified is a treat. Not my usual type of show for sure, but my old man got me to watch that years ago and I enjoyed it to the end.
Fargo is nice because aside from easter eggs each season is completely unreleated to the season before it. I only watched the first 2 seasons but found them very enjoyable. I probably liked season 1 more than season 2, but they both had their good points.
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Before the election of Trump the other 2015 Dark Matter a completely different tv series with the same name went mostly unnoticed
https://www.metacritic.com/game/dark-matter-2015/
'Critic reviews are not available yet'
maybe in another universe this became a successful show?
That show was great for low-budget. I think I remember hearing that the actors were demanding a much bigger payday as the show went on and that might have been a reason for the cancellation? Make sure you see whether or not it had a satisfying end before you invest the time so you don't Sarah Conner Chronicles yourself. I only watched the first two seasons.
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There are other scifi from South Korea for example but Scifi seems kind of dead with the big Star Treks and Star Wars starting to fall down
Did you ever watch The 100? That show was far better than it had any right to be since it was aired originally on the WB. I didn't finish the show, but I saw probably 3 seasons of it. I've always meant to get back to that one too.
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I think I'll watch episode 5 tomorrow. I'm wrecked from work today and the night already got away from me. I might be hanging out with my friend tomorrow though so we'll see what happens.
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Dark Matter some face-off quantum leap stuff I will get back to it, probably won't have finished watching the older Dark Matter 2015 Canadian on the spaceship but what I seen of it I did enjoy
new Dark Matter 2024 I think its worth a binge watch, its a pity the DVD market is dead I used to enjoy buying them watching the extras, actor and director commentary and behind the scenes, will stream again with more free time.
the remake of Shogun is another show I need to finish (non scifi)
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